{"id":276055,"date":"2022-09-13T17:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276055"},"modified":"2022-09-13T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T23:47:02","slug":"measure-protect-humans-15-weeks-house-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/measure-protect-humans-15-weeks-house-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure to protect preborn humans at 15 weeks introduced in U.S. House and Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has introduced a bill that would protect preborn children from abortion after 15 weeks \u2013 something polls have shown time and time again that most Americans want, and which would bring federal abortion law in line with most Western democracies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion is a contentious issue,\u201d Graham said in a news conference announcing the proposal, according to the<\/span> Washington Post<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\u201cAbortion is not banned in America. It is left up to elected officials in America to define the issue \u2026 States have the ability to do [so] at the state level and we have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue if we choose. I have chosen to speak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Graham\u2019s bill, the <\/span>Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act<\/span><\/a>, would prevent abortions from being done on preborn babies beginning at 15 weeks of gestation. This is partly because, as stated in the bill, \u201cthere is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 15 weeks gestational age, if not earlier,\u201d and because in late-term abortions, \u201crisks to the pregnant woman […] increase with gestational age.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n